Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pineville, 200 workers went back to their looms and spindles, claiming that they had been "starved out" by the union. Into Pineville only $150 had been sent to sustain 150 families during three weeks of strike...
...words crept into the strikers' back country vocabulary. Professional agitators taught them the word "sweatshop" which seemed particularly applicable to Southern mills, with their hungry hum ming machinery, high humidity,* closed windows, lint-laden air. Said one striker: "I ain't afeared of Hell. I've spent 20 summers in the mills...
...factory at Menilmontant, near Paris. He tried to be an acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...
...higher aim than to give Buddy (Charles) Rogers a chance to play the saxophone, it turned out better than you would expect. Nancy Carroll splits up a vaudeville team by flirting with each member in turn so that Rogers can get their booking. Best shot: vaudeville love in the back seat...
...Back in the Sober Seventies the typewriter tinker was a faithful reader of The Weekly Tribune founded by Editor Horace Greeley. Years after he left New York state and moved across the Atlantic to settle in Tinglev, Schleswig, the Danish mechanic remembered the great U. S. editor. When he begat a son in Tinglev, he named the man-child?today chief of the German delegation in Paris?Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. The onetime plowboy was. of course, General Electric's Owen D. Young, chief negotiant for the U. S. in Paris, chairman of the Second Dawes Committee...